Alexandra Huddleston

​"A Chance of Showers" is part of the photographic project "Vertigo." Iceland’s mercurial geography inspires this series of photographs about a landscape that is constantly shifting. On my first trip to Iceland in 2013, I came to understand the profound instability of our earth. On this island in the North Atlantic, in minutes a mountain can disappear or a valley can become a river of lava. The rapid flux in the weather, the midnight sun, and the polar night, all provoke a feeling of disorientation. The firmament collects in puddles. The marks of human habitation are pervasive and at the same time little more than a mirage, on the verge of disappearing. From small changes in light, weather, season, and the actions of beast and man, to enormous tectonic cataclysm, past and future upheaval waits within the stability and stillness of each photograph.”

Alexandra Huddleston is a photographer, book artist, publisher and pilgrim. By interweaving photography with the narrative arts, anthropology, history and religious studies, her work creates a dialogue between the life of the past and that of the present.

Among other honors, Huddleston has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center on an NEA fellowship (USA, 2007), the UCROSS Foundation (USA, 2008), Michigan State University (USA, 2008), Cow House Studios (Ireland, 2016), and Cill Rialaig (Ireland, 2017).